Week 3 post 2

After my first post about the development of speech that a child gains over time it occurred to me that  after the child is born there are different stages. Jean Piaget described different developmental stages and the  stages starts out with sensorimotor intelligence; which means by one using their senses and motor skills. Did you ever wonder why babies or infants may grab or react in a certain way when something occurs in around them? Well it shows that they are learning senses and motor skills, touching there feet or lips or maybe trying to pick up a toy. When an infant starts to reach for something in the beginning they are learning how to coordinate what they are thinking with there hands and it does not always work too well; but eventually they figure it out by practice. Another thing that we learned when we were infants is to know that when an object is taken away that it still exist; that is called object permanence. Have you ever hid a ball or played hid and go seek with a baby? In the beginning when there to young to understand they think the object is gone but as they get older they know your joking or hiding. The child eventually starts to seek for the objects and learns where they are hidden.